Firefox extensions
My list of Firefox extensions continues to grow, and since I’m pretty happy with the installed set, I thought I’d share the list. Here goes:
- Adblock — Filtering ads is pretty much mandatory functionality for me.
- Adblock Filterset.G Updater — Makes Adblock work if you don’t want to write the filtering rules yourself.
- ColorZilla — Adds an eye-dropper color tool for looking up RGB values of colors in a web page.
- del.icio.us — The bookmarklets worked fine, but the extension makes posting pages to del.icio.us even easier.
- Dom Inspector — Not incredible useful for debugging, but occasionally it helps.
- Download Statusbar — Moves download status to the status bar instead of a pop-up window.
- FireBug — The new kid on the block of web debugging tools. Great integration with the browser.
- Greasemonkey — Enables page rewriting. See userscripts.org for ideas.
- Performancing — In-browser blogging. Not as nice as MarsEdit, but handy for quick posts or posting from my linux box.
SessionSaver— I have a love/hate relationship with this extension. It’s great when it recovers a browser session after a crash, but it tends to load a strange set of pages when it happens.Tab X— Puts “close” buttons on each tab (ala Safari.) Makes life easier for me.- Tab Mix Plus — Extensive tab preferences and session recovery.
- Venkman JavaScript Debugger — Elaborate JavaScript debugging environment.
- Web Developer — A swiss-army-knife of developer tools.
I’m also running the GrApple (Classic Pro) theme.
The list of available Firefox Extensions grows so rapidly that it’s hard to keep up. I generally find out about new extensions from LifeHacker, but if you have one that you love, I’d like to hear about it!
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Has somebody worked with Stylish….an awesome extension for firefox.
I haven’t used Stylish, and it doesn’t seem to be in the offical Mozilla extensions site, but I found more info on it here: http://userstyles.org/stylish
Rather than SessionSaver and TabX, you might be better off with TabMixPlus (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=1122), apparently its session saving is more stable, and less leaky than SessionSaver’s.
Thanks Phil! I’ll definitely check it out.
Speaking of extensions, I’ve also added one called ‘tamperdata’ to my development machine: http://tamperdata.mozdev.org/ I’m not sure how useful it will be in practice, but the extension allows you to be “man-in-the-middle” and alter data as it comes in and out of the browser.
You forgot *the* most essential extension out there:
http://www.squarefree.com/pornzilla/